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Standing Buddha

CultureIndian
Date10th-11th century
MediumBronze with silver inlay
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 inches (26.67 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number51-55
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 228
Exhibition History

Bronze Sculptures from the Far East, Exhibition for the Third Annual Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, October 29-November 28, 1954, no cat.

Master Bronzes of India, The Art Institute of Chicago, September 3-October 10, 1965; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 21-November 30, 1965; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, January 18-February 27, 1966; Asia House Gallery, New York, October 12-December 11, 1966, no. 15 as Buddha.

Collecting Paradise:  Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago, January 13-April 19, 2015; Rubin Museum of Art, New York, May 22-October 19, 2015, no. 1.26.

Provenance

With Alexander von Frey (1882-1951), Europe and New York, by 1951;

Estate of Alexander von Frey, New York, 1951;

Purchased from the estate of Alexander von Frey by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1951.

Published References

Douglas Barrett, “Bronzes from Northwest India and Western Pakistan,” in Lalit Kala, II (April 1962): 38, 43, 44, fig. 11, (repro.).

Art Institute of Chicago and William Rochill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Master Bronzes of India, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), unpaginated, (repro.).

Pratapaditya Pal, “The Rich Variety of the Indian Bronze,” in Apollo, 97 (March 1973): 77, fig. 6, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 122, (repro.).

David L. Snellgrove, The Image of the Buddha. (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1978), 169, fig. 124, (repro.).

Denise Lardner Carmody and John Tully Carmody, Ways to the Center: an Introduction to World Religion, 3rd ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1989), 145, fig. 19, (repro.).

Terukazu Akiyama, L’Art Bouddhique (Geneva: Edition Olizane; UNESCO, 1990), 43, fig. 1, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 379, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 265, fig. 26, (repro.).

Rob Linrothe, Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies, exh. cat. (New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2014), 55,-57, fig. 1.26, (repro.).

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